Publications
Publication details [#14452]
Kleiner, Brian. 1998. The modern racist ideology and its reproduction in 'pseudo-argument'. Discourse & Society 9 (2) : 187–215. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
0957-9265
Journal WWW
Annotation
Analysis of student conversations about race reveals a type of collaborative discourse called "pseudo-argument", a conversation type simulating ordinary argumentation to preserve a sense of fairness and rationality in the absence of antagonists.